On a chronic cholera carrier / by J.G. Adami, A. Vallee and G.E. Martineau.

  • Adami, J. George (John George), 1862-1926.
Date:
1911
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Credit: On a chronic cholera carrier / by J.G. Adami, A. Vallee and G.E. Martineau. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Reprinted from The Canadian Medical Association Journal, August, 1911 ON A CHRONIC CHOLERA CARRIER* \ By J. G. Adami, M.D., F.R.S., Montreal; A. Vallee, M.D., Quebec and G. E. Martineau, M.D., Grosse Isle 'T'HE case we are about to offer presents not a few points of interest. * More especially we are inclined to think it of import as throwing light upon the existence of “cholera carriers/’ and as demonstrating the probable mode whereby the cholera vibrio is perpetuated from one season to another and becomes transmitted along trade routes. In the second place, it is of serious import in its bearing upon the efficacy of the international quarantine regulations against this disease. Lastly, it throws doubt upon the value of the routine methods that until recently have been employed for rapid diagnosis of the specific- organism. We hesitate to ascribe our abnormal results to imperfect technique, or rather would state that the ordinary technique in our hands has, through the presence of certain other organisms, shown itself unable to separate immediately the specific cholera vibrio with certainty and precision. For this, other methods have been found necessary. History of Case For the details of the history of the patient we are indebted to the surgeon of the Royal George, to Dr. Bailey, of the American Immigration Service at Quebec, and to Dr. Page, Medical Superintendent of the Detention Hospital at Quebec. The patient, a Russian, left the village of Michelsdorf, in the district of Wlodawsky, in the province of Szedlicki, on October 18th, driving to the city of Wlodawa, and thence travelling by rail for two days to Libau. At Libau he was detained in an immigrant boarding-house, with some thirty other immigrants, for a day and a night; then he went on board a Danish *Read before the Laboratory Workers’ Section, Canadian Medical Association, June 7th, 1911.